The essays explore the political instrumentalization of the concepts of folk, people and ethnos in Southeastern Europe in the “long 19 th century”. They map the discursive and institutional itineraries through which this set of notions became a focal point of cultural and political thought in various national contexts; a process that coincided with the...
The editors: Balázs Trencsényi is Assistant Professor of History at the Central European University, Budapest. Michal Kopecek is Research Fellow at the Institute of Contemporary History, Prague. This is the second of the four-volume series, a daring project of CEU Press, presenting the most important texts that triggered and shaped the processes of nation-building in...
This series of four books, published by the Central European University Press, is the outcome of a long-term project called “Identity Reader” carried out by a group of scholars at the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia. It contains the most important texts that shaped the processes of nation-building in Central and Southeast Europe. The series...
This book was the direct follow-up of the “After the Accession… The Socio-Economic Culture of Eastern Europe in the Enlarged Union: An Asset or a Liability?” Project (2002-2003). `After the Accession… The Socio-Economic Culture of Eastern Europe in the Enlarged Union: An Asset or a Liability?` was a joint international project carried out by the...
